Blotting-pad or blotter



F. N. CROWELL.

BLOTTING PAD 0R BLOTTER, APPLICATION FILED AUG.I5. 1919.

1,344,335. 3 ntedJune 22,1920.

UNITED STATES FREDERIC N. CROWELL, 0F TERRACE PARK, OHIO.

BLOTTING-PAD 0R BLOTTER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented June 22, 1920.

Application filed August 15, 1919. Serial No. 317,710.

T 0 all whom/i1? may concern:

Be it known that I, Funnnnio N. CRowELL, a citizen of the United States, residing at Terrace Park, in the county of Hamilton and State of ()hio,liave invented new and useful Improvements in Blotting-Pads or Blotters, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to what are commonly known as blotting pads or blotters and is intended to improve the same by simplifying structure, enhancing the convenience of use, and reducing cost, thus producing a new article of manufacture and use of greater utility.

Such devices are more particularly useful in special clerical work where a very large number of signatures or special indorsements or entries in books are required and dispatch is necessary. In such cases it is found very desirable to blot the writing immediately and effectually; and to this end my invention is designed to produce a very simple, inexpensive and practical pad in which the blotting face portion is easily and quickly renewable and securely held by simple and novel means to its place; also in the provision of an elastic and renewable holding strap enabling the device to be convcniently held on and used by the free hand.

in such wise as to allow the full use of the hand and fingers.

My invention is illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 is a perspective elevation of the device with face or blotting side down as in the act of blotting; 1

Fig. 2 is a detached view of one of the holding yokes; and

Figs. 3 and 4; are views of the pad in place upon the hand out of and in use re- The yokes B are made of spring wire and are shaped as shown in Fig. 2 with very little clearance against the end of the plate A so as to produce a stretching of the blotting sheet in putting it in position. The part b of the yoke is bent slightly inward as shown to maintain a firm pressure holding the blotting sheet C in place against the ends of the plate A, and this tension, it will be observed, is renewable or changeable at pleasure by bending more or less from the horizontal.

The plate A is also provided at each side with a spring wire clip D, preferably formed as shown as a flattened letter S, fastened at the extremities and presenting inwardly two protected prongs as shown. An ordinary rubber band or strip E is secured as indicated in Fig. 1 by slipping the rubber between the prongs of the spring clip as indicated.

In the preferred mode of use, the pad is slipped on the second finger of the left hand H as indicated, the elastic rubber band being adjusted to hold the device on the back of'the fingers and is almost instantly re-adjustable to any desired tension.

The Figs. 3 and 4 indicate the position of disuse and use in blotting.

I claim as my invention and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States:

In a blotting pad, the combination with a plate, means for holding a pad thereto and an elastic strip to fit over the hand, of a cli p at each side of the plate, said clip comprising a resilient wire having its terminals secured-to the plate and having its intermediate portion made substantially S- shaped to form oppositely presented prongs arranged in overlapping planes and between which prongs the free end of the elastic strip is passed and adjustably held.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand in presence of two subscribing witnesses.

FREDERIO N. CROWELL.

Witnesses:

NORMA D. BERGER, CARL Pmrms. 

